(600f) Scale up Production of High Performance Nanowires for Waste Heat Recovery
AIChE Annual Meeting
2015
2015 AIChE Annual Meeting Proceedings
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum
Nanomaterials Manufacturing
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 4:55pm to 5:15pm
The rapid development of nanomaterials in the past decade has provided a possibility of directly converting waste heat back to electricity based on the thermoelectric Seebeck effect. In the past four years, we have developed a transformative approach to pioneered low cost and scalable solution-phase growth methods to mass produce thermoelectric nanowires and nanowire heterostructures to match the physical and economic magnitudes of energy use and economical entertainment in the manufacture/recycling. These nanostructured thermoelectric materials show a significantly enhanced performance compared to the bulk crystals based on the quantum confinement and minority carrier blocking.